"History, we know, is apt to repeat itself."

-- George Eliot

#History Quotes

“I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy.”

Source : "Kylie Minogue 'exclusive'". Sydney Morning Herald Interview, blogs.smh.com.au. February 21, 2005.
“Photography allows you to be a part of the action and document stories. It is a perfect extension of my body. I can take it pretty much anywhere and tell a story with a photograph.”
“Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain.”
“One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.”
“Out here where the world begins and ends, itâ€™s like nothing ever stops happening.”
“I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.”

Source : Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.72, World Scientific
“Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.”
“Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims.”

Source : Frank Chodorov (2007). “Rise and Fall of Society”, p.150, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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